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Cat found hanging dead from lamp post in Alta.
The Canadian Press
PONOKA, Alta.
-- RCMP are investigating after a dead cat was found suspended by the neck with wire and hanging from a lamp post in a central Alberta community.
Const. James Lai says a customer going into a store in Ponoka, Alta., noticed the grisly sight around 10 a.m. Saturday morning and alerted the store manager.
Lai says the animal was suspended about four metres in the air, hanging from a horizontal arm normally used to hang flower baskets in the summer.
He says police believe someone put the animal there sometime between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Saturday morning, though he couldn't say whether the brown female tabby cat may still have been alive when it was strung up.
Lai, who is a dog owner, says the incident was very upsetting for him, and for his partner Const. Melanie Girard, who is also an animal lover.
He says he's hoping tips from the public may help determine how the cat came to be there, and who may be responsible.
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